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Sweet Potato & Carrot Tzimmes

1 pound carrots
6 sweet potatoes
1/2 cup pitted prunes (optional)
1 cup orange juice
1/2 cup honey or brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cinnamon
2 Tbsp. margarine
1 20 oz. can pineapple chunks, drained
1 11 oz. can mandarin oranges, drained

Peel carrots and cut into 1-inch slices. Peel and slice sweet potatoes into 1/2 inch slices. In a 3-quart saucepan cook carrots and sweet potatoes in boiling, salted water to cover, until tender but firm. Drain carrots and sweet potatoes and place in 3-quart casserole with prunes. Combine gently.

Preheat oven to 350.

Mix orange juice, honey, salt and cinnamon. Pour evenly over casserole. Dot top with margarine. Bake covered, for 30 minutes. Uncover, stir gently, add pineapple chunks and mandarin oranges and bake another 10 minutes.

Variation: cook ingredients listed, in pot, using juice from pineapple and mandarin oranges in place of water.

USE: 3-quart saucepan and 3-quart casserole
YIELDS: 8 servings

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Excerpted from Spice and Spirit, The Complete Kosher Jewish Cookbook, published by Lubavitch Women's Cookbook Publications

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Posted: Sep 3, 2010

Meat in tzimmes

Flanken is actually short ribs cut across the bone instead of between. You can substitute short ribs which are more readily available, or ask the butcher to cut them as you prefer.
Browning the meat and adding the other sweet ingredients works best on top of the stove and in the oven to finish; the flavor is better and you season the meat first. You can certainly use a slow cooker, but the flavor will be different.

Posted By Phyllis hantman, Rockaway, NJ-Morris County

Posted: Sep 2, 2010

Nyafat

Adrienne asked if anyone still uses Nyafat.
Most people probably don't know what it is.
My mother always used it, and when I got married in 1958 I always used the onion flavored Nyafat -- especially for Pesach.
To my dismay, I have not been able to find it anymore in the Cleveland, Ohio area -- even at a Kosher market. I was told that it is no longer available. Maybe NY is different.

Posted By Adelle G., Shaker Hts.,, Ohio

Posted: Aug 9, 2010

add orange juice and Nyafat query

orange juice, chunks of leman, and/or any chopped dried fruit kicks up the citrus/tart/sweet taste in tsimmes - with meat or without. Question is does anyone still use Nyafat?

Posted By Adrienne, ny, ny

Posted: Sep 16, 2009

meat tzimmes

My Mom would have the chuck or flanken cut up like stew, brown it with some onion, then slow cook with carrots and prunes and sweet potatoes. I think you could do it in a slow cooker. add some beef broth to give it some liquid.
Where can you get flanken these days ?No kosher butcher in our area. i don't keep kosher, so I use a good chuck roast..

Posted By Elaine , Holland, Pa., USA
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Posted: Sep 9, 2007

tzimmes

i remember my grandmother making tzimmes with flanken, prunes and sweet kosher wine. does anyone know how it is done?

thank you

Posted By harriet soto, BRADENTON, FL
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